Georgia wailed as she hammered Robert's chest with her fists, her sobs wracking her body.
She'd heard too much about this sort of human experimentation, and those secrets of the shadows were often utterly bone-chilling.
Those black-hearted laboratories often drew their live humans, perhaps friendless people with no family, from war-torn countries.
Those people would end up dying badly, in horrific conditions.
Of course, different experiments ended up in different ways. Georgia had only heard a few behind-the-scenes secrets, but it was enough to terrify her.
"Okay, okay... we'll go to the hospital for a check-up, so don't be so sad, all right?"
Robert's voice was still gentle as he supported Georgia, who was barely able to stand, towards the house.
Georgia leant on his shoulder, until her legs gave out and Robert ended up picking her up.
Before reaching the mansion doors, Georgia saw Annie swinging on the garden swing with Ivan, and as they approached, Annie ran over excitedly.
"Daddy, Mommy, you two went to take a nap in secret! I waited for you for so long! If Uncle Ivan hadn't played with me all along, I would have gotten mad."
Annie ran over and said that, then showed a shy smile.
"You're so old now, Mommy, and you're still having Daddy carry you!"
Georgia buried her head in Robert's arms. Her eyes were swollen from crying, and she didn't want Annie to see them at all.
"Why are you still snuggling with Daddy like you're shy, Mommy? I want Daddy to hug me too, come down!"
Annie said playfully, but Georgia still kept her head nestled in Robert's chest, afraid that Annie would find something off with her.
Robert turned to Annie and started comforting her.
"Mommy has a headache. Annie, go play with your uncle first. I'll carry your Mommy to bed to rest first, and I can come back to play with you later, okay?"
At that, Annie showed a worried expression.
"Are you sick, Mommy?"
Georgia replied weakly.
"My head just hurts for now. I'll be fine after I rest up for a while. Don't bother with me, Annie, Mommy is fine."
Ivan noticed that something was vaguely off, and smiled down at Annie.
"Let's let your Mommy rest for now. I'll play with you instead. You don't hate that, right?"
Annie's attention was distracted, and even though she was still worried about her mother, she still went with Ivan's suggestion and let Robert carry Georgia inside the mansion.
Georgia's forcibly supported emotions crumbled the moment she entered the house, and she held Robert, sniffling quietly.
Her tears were about to soak Robert's clothes through entirely.
Georgia let Robert carry her into the bedroom, and as the door closed, she turned towards him and spoke.
"You have the right not to say anything, and you can very well go on lying to me that everything is fine. I'll believe you, but you have to go and do a full body check first. I want to see a complete report on everything. Then we can decide what to do! Robert, you have to be serious about this. Didn't you want to see Annie married, and see the two of us grow old together?
"If you're going to be irresponsible about your own body, then I'll take up the responsibility. I'll be the tough guy. Even if you hate it, I won't leave you like this."
Robert sighed at Georgia.
"I haven't felt anything off with my body. Maybe I was just feeling good about it. But you're right about one thing. I don't know when I lost my memory, so even though I didn't think I spent too long in the lab, I don't know if that's the right conclusion. It's late, and it's too much trouble to go to the hospital. It's going to attract attention, too. The media has their eyes on us. Let's go tomorrow. At least, when you've settled your own emotions. We can go to the hospital tomorrow. I won't ignore this anymore, and I'll seriously check up on my body. If there's a problem, we'll cure it together. I'm not going to be the person who runs away."
That answer barely satisfied Georgia, but she was still unhappy with Robert's behavior today.
"We were going to ask Sierra so many things, but that reveal from her disrupted all our plans. What are you going to do with her from this point on? We can't keep her here illegally all the time. If we have evidence of her committing a crime, we'd best deliver her to prison."
"We'll have to wait. The evidence of her crimes is overseas. She did a lot of things to lie to me back then, and I can't do anything about her in the country right now."
Obviously Robert had his own arrangements, so Georgia didn't ask on.
Besides, both she and Robert needed to confirm if Sierra Moon was actually Emma Lane.
They were supposed to ask Sierra about it today, but then she'd revealed the human experimentation, and Georgia had forgotten entirely about it in the moment.
"Forget it. We'll ask her about it some other time."
Head aching, Georgia fell asleep on the bed right away.
At night, she even had a fever, but it was low, and she could still maintain consciousness. Robert took care of her by her side all along.
She slept in a groggy mess for a while night, and the fever faded the following the morning.
She took a shower, and her whole being was refreshed.
"The servants are back. I had the chef make some porridge. It's not greasy at all, so hurry up and fill your stomach. You didn't eat anything last night."
Georgia had just freshened up, gotten dressed and walked out when Robert spoke gently to her.
Robert looked a bit tired, probably because he'd taken care of her for an entire night. Georgia nodded.
"Let's go. We can go get breakfast first. What about Anne? Was she frightened last night?"
"She's fine. Ivan stayed with her all through the while. And your fever was low. She was worried, but she still slept well. She came over and looked on you a few times. Now that you're awake, she's waiting for you to eat breakfast in the dining room."
Georgia relaxed. Robert was actually getting ready to help her towards the dining room to eat, and Georgia chuckled.
"I'm not that fragile. It's just a low fever. I'm feeling energetic again now. I'll be fit as a fiddle after breakfast. Let's go. No need to carry me."
The two reached the restaurant and Annie cried for them excitedly.
"You're here, Daddy, Mommy, I was waiting for you for so long! But Mommy, you're still sick and you can only eat porridge. I have so much good food here, will you get jealous? Maybe I'll just have the porridge with you, in case you can't hold back."
Annie's childish innocence had Georgia laughing.
"Silly girl, Mommy's an adult now, and she can control herself, you know? When I'm better, I'll fight over breakfast with you."
The family ate a happy, harmonious breakfast.
Georgia got ready to bring Robert to hospital, but unexpectedly, Jason had followed Elsie and Wilson to Robert's mansion.
Naturally, the moment Jason set foot inside, he shot a mocking look at Robert.
"I'm impressed that you could lie to a brother of so many years with something like this. I'm telling you, if Jasper hadn't been confined to his sickbed, I'd been planning to beat you up along with him. Tell me, where do you think we should hit you? We need to put you through some proper pain before we feel better about it!"
Georgia knew that Jason was just joking around between the guys, and even if they did do something, it wouldn't get too serious, but she still rebuked him reflexively.
"That won't do. Robert is going to the hospital with me right away. I need him to do a full body check. You can't joke around like this with him. I'm afraid that his body has issues."